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Best Interconnects and Speaker cables
I have also been using the Acoustic Zen Silver Reference II IC 1.5m and Hologram II Speaker Cables 12' for a few years. Got them pre-owned here for under $1,500.00 and haven't found myself looking to replace them. I needed a longer run for the spe... 
OPUS 21
Owning an Opus 21 and the Exousias Umbilical from RSA I thought I'd do a comparison. I've had the Exousias in place for many months now,honestly I forget but maybe a year and a half even. Now to divert for a moment. One of my fine upstanding Credi... 
Anyone have any experience with the Tunami GPX-R ?
Yes.. purely aesthetics.. I got it at Take Five Audio in Canada.. While Christ VH sent some techflkex free with the plugs and cable i bought from VH Audio I wanted the softer Nylon Material I found at take Five. It was difficult to work onto the c... 
Anyone have any experience with the Tunami GPX-R ?
For that price you can get 1.5 M and P/C/004s and DIY.. The materialsand againThe Result 
Oyaide
I have a 1.5 m length of Oyaide Tunami I bought from VH Audio terminated with Oyaide p/c-004 plugs i also purchased there, you can see pics here; http://home.comcast.net/~cpkver8/images/pc2.jpghttp://home.comcast.net/~cpkver8/images/pc3.jpg The dr... 
The most haunting music you ever heard?
What about Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis?FWIW I concur with the Acoustic "Under the Milky Way" I have it,its lovely.Check out the Bax Quintet for Harp and Strings,Elegiac Trio for Harp and Violin Fantasy Sonata for Harp and Viola and Sonata... 
Longest continuous playing songs
the Playin' in the Band from 5-21-74 @ Edmundson Pavilion , University of Washington, Seattle, WA is a whopping 46:27 of Psilocybin soaked protogalactic sound.. 
Need help - High-end cabling strategy
No experience with that PC but i am demo'ing a pair of the original Siltech SQ110 G5 balanced ICs not even the MkII as i type and they really are a dead quiet cable.I have a Naxos recording of the Oxford Camerata's Hildegard von Bingen - Heavenly ...